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It is worth your time watching Shakespeare & Company’s two fine actresses come to an understanding that is cathartic and real.
Read MoreBreath & Imagination is a realistic, moving, and very revealing take on what it means to be a black artist in America, both then and now.
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The Lyric Stage production of Anna Christie does right by Eugene O’Neill’s brilliance.
Read MoreGabriel is a searing experience to read, filled with sadness but also humor and forbearance, and may give comfort to parents who are dealing with difficult children.
Read MoreIf any of you are harboring a budding young musician, investigate the possibility of he or she attending BUTI.
Read MoreYou are hardly aware of the historical facts. Kate Grenville internalizes them so completely in her novel there is not a sentence that “stinks of history,” as a friend of mine once said about whole historical fiction genre.
Read MoreThough written in 1984, The House of Jasmine’s description of widespread political corruption and social decay in the Sadat era is powerfully relevant to the uprisings of 2011 when Mubarak was ousted and that are still roiling Egypt today.
Read MoreIn her second novel, Aminatta Forna gives us a moving story of the toll that the terrible civil war in Sierra Leone has taken and is still taking, years after it supposedly ended.
Read MoreWhile reading Andre Maurois’ “Climates” you feel your world narrowing in uncomfortable ways.
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Book Commentary: Philip Roth — American Warnings
In the end, Philip Roth produced the greatest body of work in the 20th century since William Faulkner and Saul Bellow and I.B. Singer.
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